Biopython / Python for genomics data analysis online courses

Question

[kapil.joshi036]

I would like to know online courses In python language which will help me in the field of Bioinformatics

[konstantinkul]

If you are starting from scratch in programming, you should start from foundations of Python programming and do not pay attention to bioinformatics aspects. I think on this stage you should just feel that you write the code more or less freely (of course everybody googling or stack overflowing, but not so often as a beginners). There are a huge amount of different courses. I, for instance, started from Courseera. In most my cases I use Python just for parsing formats of output files and creating pipelines for data processing, but it is a real magic ))) You should strive to learn to programme. I found that bioinformatics it is more experience than just learning new things in a short period of time, so the time matters. Good luck!!!

[kapil.joshi036]

Thank you so much for ur guidance sir.

Answer 1

[Sej Modha]

Did you have a look at Coursera courses, not sure if there are specific bioinformatics courses but data science ones might be a good starting point.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that GOBLET would be something to look at for the bioinformatics orientated courses.

[kapil.joshi036]

is it worth to spend 2500 Inr ?

Answer 2

[Denise CS]

I'd recommend DataCamp and Using Python for Research, both are free of charge.

Answer 3

[natasha.sernova]

Kapil, see datacamp.com. https://www.datacamp.com

These are very nice classes, and there is a 50% discount (the nearest 4-5 days only) for the whole coming year.

As far as I know they are not free, but right now you have to pay just 50%. You can take as many classes as they have.